We continue our look at the bizarre death of the Isdal Woman.

It’s one of the greatest mysteries in true crime. A woman is found dead on a Norwegian hillside, her body badly burned. But how she died is only the beginning. Coded documents, multiple identities, and mysterious meetings have left us to wonder — who is the Isdal woman?

Resources:

• Isdal Woman: The mystery death haunting Norway for 46 years – BBC News
• The Unsolved Case: The Isdal Woman | by The Fig Files | Medium
• Do you remember this woman? – NRK Dokumentar
• 2017-interpol-isdalwoman-blacknotice.pdf
• Isdal Woman Life & Death: Norways Biggest Mystery by L. Robinson, Kindle Edition.
• Isdal Woman Identified? New 2025 Update on the Unsolved Mystery
• The Isdalen mystery – Dokumentar
• The Isdal Woman Cold Case: Mystery Over Her Identity Endu…
• The Unsolved Mystery of the Isdal Woman – Life in Norway

We conclude our look at the Chance Englebert case. Is it solved, and what can we learn if it is?

When a young cowboy goes missing in a sudden storm, his family is desperate for answers. What happened to Chance Englebert?

Resources:

• Chance Leslie Englebert – The Charley Project
• EPISODE 197: Chance Englebert — The Vanished Podcast
• Walmart video unable to confirm missing man sighting in Casper – Casper, WY Oil City News
• https://youtu.be/kqNe2gD2Cwk?si=HD7QUbtqhGMvs99n
• Missing: Chance Englebert | Terrytown, NE | Uncovered
• Gering Police release updated information in Chance Englebert investigation (starherald.com)
• Missing: Chance Englebert (youtube.com)
• Family fears the worst two months after Wyoming man Chance Englebert vanishes from Gering, Nebraska (nbcnews.com)

Even more of our fun ramblings, trip-ups, and silly bloopers from 2025.

2025 has come and gone and what a year it has been. We review our favorite cases and give you some stats.

It should have been a wonderful Christmas with family. Instead, it turned into an unimaginable horror.

Resources:

• Man on death row for 1990 Oakley cabin murders files fifth appeal
• Crime scene photos: Deadly home invasion
• Sisters survive deadly attack at Utah cabin – CBS News
• Gifts and Gunfire: Inside the Tiede Cabin Killings
• Taylor v. Powell, No. 20-4039 (10th Cir. 2021) :: Justia
• USCOURTS-utd-2_07-cv-00194-1.pdf
• Tiede – Newspapers.com™
• Tiede – Newspapers.com™
• Tiede – Newspapers.com™
• Tiede – Newspapers.com™
• Tiede – Newspapers.com™
• Article clipped from The Park Record – Newspapers.com™
• DELI GETS LIFE IN PRISON WITHOUT PAROLE – Deseret News
• Tiede – Newspapers.com™
• Tiede – Newspapers.com™
• Judge overturns Utah death row inmate’s murder conviction | AP News
• Death row inmate in cabin killings dealt setback on appeal | AP News

We conclude our look at the Bryce Laspisa case.

When Bryce Laspisa left college heading for his parents’ home, what began as a simple drive turned into a bizarre, unending road trip, culminating in a mystery that persists to this day.

Resources:

• Roommate Hoping for the Best after Sierra College Student Goes Missing | FOX40
• The Missing: Bryce Laspisa – The Morbid Library
• WHERE IS Bryce Laspisa? California College Student Vanishes (youtube.com)
• Missing: Bryce Laspisa | Castaic , CA | Uncovered
• Disappeared, Episode Name: Road to Nowhere, Season 7, Episode 3
• Bryce Laspisa: What Happened to Him? Has He Been Found? (thecinemaholic.com)
• CA – CA – Bryce Laspisa, 19, Castaic-Timeline and Media Thread **NO DISCUSSION** | Websleuths
• Bryce David Laspisa – The Charley Project
• Crime Junkie- Missing: Bryce Laspisa, January 28, 2018
• The Disappearance of Bryce Laspisa – Stories of the Unsolved

Four young girls die tragically in a fire in Flora, Indiana. Was it preventable? And more importantly, was it murder?

Resources:

• One year later, what we know about Flora fire
• Flora Fire | Questions remain 7 years after 4 sisters killed in intentionally set fire – Indianapolis News | Indiana Weather | Indiana Traffic | WISH-TV |
• Flora fatal fire ruled undetermined – Indianapolis News | Indiana Weather | Indiana Traffic | WISH-TV |
• Flora fatal fire intentional; Investigators ask for help from citizens | wthr.com
• THE FLORA FIRE – A BRIEF TIMELINE : r/flora_arson
• Flora fire department chief resigns
• Flora Fire | Resignations, conflicting reports and suspicions of fraud cloud the investigation into fire that killed four girls – Indianapolis News | Indiana Weather | Indiana Traffic | WISH-TV |
• Lawsuit filed on behalf of mother who lost 4 daughters in Flora fire expands to include Sears, others | Fox 59
• Docs: Settlement reached in Flora arson fire civil suit
• Flora fatal fire intentional; Investigators ask for help from citizens | wthr.com
• 5 years later: Mom of 4 girls killed in Flora fire feels ‘robbed as a mother’
• FBI Revisits 2016 Fatal Arson Case in Flora, Indiana, Urging Public to
• Indiana State Police: Mother Gaylin Rose ‘not a suspect’ in deadly Flora fire investigation | WTTV CBS4Indy
• FBI, state police go door to door to try to solve fatal 2016 Flora fire
• Lawsuit filed on behalf of mother who lost 4 daughters in Flora fire expands to include Sears, others | Fox 59
• Flora house where 4 children died demolished | News | wlfi.com
• Flora Fire | Questions remain 7 years after 4 sisters killed in intentionally set fire – Indianapolis News | Indiana Weather | Indiana Traffic | WISH-TV |